F1-1966's blog post - Sitter's 3yrs for killing newborn
Saturday, February 16, 2008, 7:45:17 PM
A BABY-SITTER who killed a four-week-old boy by slamming him against a bed and shaking him because he was crying was jailed for just three years yesterday.
Uproar broke out as John Jeacock, 24, who admitted the manslaughter of tot Harvey Jackson, was told he would be free in less than 15 months.
Judge Gerald Gordon QC said: “It is inevitable that any sentence will be seen by the family as grossly inadequate to reflect the young life that has been lost.
“However difficult it may be for the family to accept it, I am just not here to reflect that loss in years. It is not possible. I have to pass sentence according to law.”
The judge ordered the public gallery at the Old Bailey in London to be cleared after shouts and screams of protest.